Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-05
STATE AND TERRITORY,
Nebraska JOttings.

Plattsmouth celebrates to-day.
Grand Island is blessed with two
mayors.
The republicans captured the bakery
in Omaha.
The Utica Herald and the Ashland
Herald are listed with the dead.
The Broatch will be popular jewel in
Omaha for the next two years.
The lnnocents of St. Paul recently con.
tributed 800 TO snde jewelry faklr.
The school treasury of Fremont is
financially we'll fixed, having $4,000 cash
in sight.
Norfolk is promised two new railroads
if the residents rustic around with lib
eral bonus.
A locomotive smote John Hipp, a sec
ton polisher at Lawrence. on the thigh,
and Knocked him off and out.
The court house in Fremont is suffer
ing from premature decay, and threatens
to topple into grave unless promptly
posted and propped.
The fifth annual tournament of the
State Firemens association will be held
in Kearney, July 1922. Cash prizes
amounting to $500 and number of
medals will be distributed.
The school treasurer Of Lees Park,
Valley county, has dsgraced the default.
ing profession by disappearing with the
| insignificant sum of $500. The upper
circles of boodledom are mortally Of
| Tended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels C. Nelson, of FREE
mont, met with II severe runaway acci.
dent while returning from the funeral of
their infant child. They were thrown
out of the wagon, and Mrs. Nelson dan.
| gerously injured about the head.
An untamed poet in Nebraska City
trarch' lyreg" Can't answer for the Eli
of antiquity, but the luxuriant circulation
liar of our g. c's. can be had for the ask
ing. He possesses the natural and ac-
| quired talents to fill the bill.
Two foolish young ladies in Grand Is
land, for wager, kept perfectly quiet
and mute for one hour and a half. The
| jawDone of the winner lost its power. of
action for three days, while the other
| silly maiden lowered between earth and
angeldom for eighteen hours. This
should be warning against restricting
the flow of natural gas.
! Over 200 miles of the Broken Bow ex-
tension of the b. " M. railroad has been
built, and the company is now laying
| track thereon at the rate OF one mile per
day. 1t is little singular that the Crane
| extension is not being pushed forward.
as the company has not laid rail or
driven spike this side of Central City.
Judge Kinkaid has already secured a
warm corner in public estimation by his
prompt and rigorous dealings with Grim
inals. The trial, conviction and sentence
of the two negro ravishers at Niobrara
and their Imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary within three days after the commits
sion of the fendish crime will be remem-
bered to his credit for years to come.
Mr.. Robert Hawkes a pioneer of Ne
brsska City, is dead. Reared among the
rugged navigators of the Mississippi, he
developed into a man of strong force
and will power, and every enterprise he
undertook was carried to success. He
left a moderate fortune to his family,
besides an honorable social and business
career and the respect and friendship of
the community.
An ungrateful constituency In Valley
and adjoining counties perpetrates the
following on a member of the late legis-
lature: "Crane returned from Iowa this
week with forty-sM head of cattle
Wonder where he got the money to
urc hase! A fox would have had suffi-
cient selfrespect to cover such visible
manifestations but Crane. bah! feels
too good to guard his actions"
Mr.. and Mrs. Kirkland. late of New
York, settled down in Fremont ten DAYS
ago.. They were . fly and festive PAIR